Professor
University of Maryland Baltimore
University of Maryland School of Nursing and School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Luana Colloca is physician-scientist, professor at University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Director of the TL1 program, Chair of the Pain and Placebo Special Interest Group for the International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) and Treasurer of the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies of Placebo (SIPS). Prof. Colloca holds an MD, a PhD in Neuroscience and a master in Bioethics. She completed a post-doc training at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and a senior research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. Currently, she leads an NIH-funded research portfolio on endogenous pain modulation including placebo/nocebo effects and other nonpharmacological interventions such as virtual reality at School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her team and Prof. Colloca use an integrative approach to pain research spanning pharmacological, psychobiological, genetic and brain mapping techniques. Findings from Colloca lab have been published in top-ranked journals including JAMA, NEJM, Biological Psychiatry, Pain, and Lancet Neurology and have raised interest in the scientific community and the society. Findings from Colloca lab have been featured by The National Geographic, The New Scientist, Washington Post, Science daily, Boston Globe, The New Yorker, Nature, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, News and World Reports and USA Today magazines among others. Prof. Colloca received several prestigious awards such as the IASP Wall Patrick Award for basic research on pain mechanisms and was recently recognized with the University of Maryland MPower named professorship.
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Sunday, April 24, 2022
4:35 PM – 5:20 PM ET